The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-08-26
Farm Gleanings.
There are one million rose plants
sold annually in this country.


land in California is 100000 acres, the
proprietors of which number 1000.
Not every farmer can breed such
COWS as were shown at the New York
Dairy Show, but he can initiate and
can use the best bull to be found.
A new invention, an apparatus fol
the testing of milk for it's adaptability
to butter making, has been recently in
troduced, and bears the name of 'lac
torite.'
Save the wood ashes to use as fer
tilizer. 1t is more profitable than tc
sell them to the soap makers. Wood
ashes never come amiss on the farm oi
in the garden.
Bean straw has been fed to sheer
with very gratifying results. The ami
mails seem to regard it as a toothsomt
article of diet, and in no better way
can the refuse of the patch be utilized
A practice of some Western farmers
is to apply petroleum to their seed
corn for the purpose of saving it from
plundering birds and animals. The
grain, it is said, suffers no injury from
the oil.
The Rural World says that the
great profits from sheep cannot be made
by farmers who do everything in the
grand wholesale way. No animal re.
quires better care and closer attention
than sheep.
The product of the garden will al.
ways find convenient and profitable
market on your own table. 1t is fai
more healthy and more desirable to
live principally ON fruit and vegetables
than bread and meat.
Often the sore shoulders of horse
are occasioned by Jumps and ridges in
the collar, resulting from lack of at
tention. Horse collars should be oc.
casionally washed and pounded, to
keep them soft and clean.
The best manner of accommodating
phosphate of potash, an invaluable
fertilizer, is to keep barrel of lye al
hand for the reception of all the bones
obtainable.- In this way supply oi
fertilizing material for immediate use
may be had.
Experience teaches that the earlle,
in an animals age full feeding is re.
sorted to the better 1t is, both for its
vigorous health and rapid growth.
Thus will the best returns be secured
whether the animal be intended .-oi
early sale or for raising.
Farmers would find it to their ad.
vantage to corn mutton in a weak brine
for home consumption. The hams can
be smoked and used like dried beef, or
they can be boiled. The corned mutton
will be found an agreeable change
from sausage and spare-rib.
There is no economy in keeping a
COW that does not make good butter
and plenty of it. 1t costs as much to
keep COW that will make but six
pounds of butter a week as it does one
that will double that amount. Any
suggestions as to which sort should be
kept is unnecessary.
Horses put to hard work will almost
surely show puffy spots under the har.
ness, which will soon make bad gals
if neglected. Lift the harness and
bathe the spots with cold water wher
the teams rest and at evening. Make
sure that collars, especially, fit well and
are smooth and hard.
Scours can generally be checked by
shutting the SOW up and feeding dry
corn for few days, raw flour, or ryt
or wheat whole. If too young to eat
lump OF alum the size of a walnut
may be dissolved in quart of watel
and teaspoonful given morning ant
evening to pigs week or so DID,
In gathering cucumbers they should
never be pulled, but cut instead, as on
reason why so many vines die as sooi
as they begin to bear is that the vine
are injured in cultivation or in gather
ing the fruit. Cut freely and often
for as soon as the seeds begin to in
crease in size, the flowers cease to set
1t is this early training in labor an,
responsibilities that gives to those VIII
passed childhood and youth in farm
houses an advantage il the race of life
1t explains why so large numbers o
those who win the highest position
are those whose early training laugh
them that whatever is worthy of &C
QUESTION demands effort, and is tn
prize of earnest, persistent labor.
1t may hurt the COW some to cut OF
her horns, says the United State
Daiyyman, but SO do her horns hur
Others when she goes at them ful
drive. 1t is doubtful if the pain of dc
horning is greater than the hurt o
having pair of sharp horns run int,
the side. In case of dehorning tier
is only one hurt; but there is no end o
hurts from hooking when the horn
are left on.
| n IIiuhcbOtd ldTtucT HAS Uttu eA
perimenting on the cost of keepin,
sheep, and concludes that they are al
exceedingly profitable adjunct to hi
farming operations. He says that it i
safe to say that the increase Of his foe
will cover the cost of keeping it, leay
ing the wool for clear profit; or tn
keeping may be charged against tn
wool, which will not exhaust it al
leaving the lambs clear profit.
The remedies for the protection O
cabbages from the green worm are nu
merous, and among them are the fol
following: Scatter Persian insec
powder upon the plants and worms
another is to use solution of on
ounce of saltpetie in gallon of waite
upon the oabbages. Cayenne peppe
is another useful application, and will
hand-picking, one or another of thes
used frequently will save the cabbage,
A farmer was for a long time at
loss to. account for the dwarfed cond
ton of his trees which were nearest
piece of woods, until he saw, just b,
fore night, small flock of partridge
flying into the trees and briskly ei
gagged in shipping the buds from tn
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